Standards Quotes - Page 3

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

Don't let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life.

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.

We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.